Early Dismissal

It’s snowing like crazy outside and it’s not a snow day! It’s good to get the day in but it’s still going – way more than was predicted. The roads were horrible this morning, worse probably because no one expected it to be this bad. My CT was stuck in traffic and was late getting into work. I was proud of myself because as students started arriving, I found a morning work worksheet, had them do their morning jobs, and then work on the worksheet. They were pretty well behaved. The worksheet was a pretty challenging word search, so it kept them focused and occupied for a pretty long time. When the teacher arrived, they were either reading or working on their worksheet.

We only did one round of daily 5 because we kept hearing different rumors about school closing early. The official word is 12:15 now. It sounds like I may not get out until later though because we have to wait until all the buses get here and all the kids are gone. I assisted with a guided reading group today. They were just practicing the words of the week, so it was a simple lesson. I had them write each word on a white board. The kids are pretty wound up after the crazy morning, so we decided to have them do a journal response to the Hungry Caterpillar to calm them down a bit. That definitely helped.

We got in my planned math lesson for the day, which was good. It was a scripted lesson from a Problem Solving book. We went through two “Make An Organized List” problems on the Smartboard and then a third one was for homework. They seemed to catch on quickly and it was an easy lesson to do.

Dismissal was crazy because a few buses were late because of the snow. We had to wait with the students until all the buses came and got them. Luckily it wasn’t too long and then we were out of there! I used the rest of the day to plan for the rest of this week and next. The snow is a pain, but it does help with giving more planning time! Tomorrow should be interesting because my CT is out and I’ll be with a sub….